G20
-
What the Trump-Putin bromance might mean for the climate
Eyes are on the two leaders at the G20 summit.
-
If Trump can’t handle the Paris accord, he’ll hate this bold idea
Experts offer an audacious three-year plan to halt climate change in its tracks.
-
Capsized by the rising tide: Does growth lead to income inequality?
The “rising tide” of global economic growth is lifting mostly yachts. But some nations show that inequality and environmental ruin don't have to be inevitable outcomes of economic growth.
-
The world is one poor harvest away from chaos
An Indian woman sifts grain from a previous harvest. Water shortages could drastically affect this year’s harvest.Photo: World BankIn early January, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that its Food Price Index had reached an all-time high in December, exceeding the previous record set during the 2007-08 price surge. Even more alarming, on […]
-
The path to the U.N. climate summit in Cancun and the chances of success
Representatives from 194 countries gather this week in Cancun, for the 16th meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
-
Fossil fuels keep getting the breaks
Leaders at G20 vowed to phase out oil subsidies. They might as well have vowed to end world hunger, because that is one huge rock to push up the hill
-
G20 makes itsy-bitsy progress on fossil-fuel subsidies
The G20 summit wrapped up in Toronto on Sunday without much action on one of its most sensible targets: phasing out wasteful fossil-fuel subsidies. Those subsidies amount to a crazy $550 billion a year worldwide, and the G20 agreed to look at how to rid the world of them last fall in Pittsburgh. Whispers before […]
-
G8 leaders stand still on climate; will G20 backtrack?
It was a tale of two cities Saturday in Toronto for this climate activist. One of hope and the other of boredom. Saturday morning, I joined Greenpeace, Oxfam, the Canadian Labor Congress, and about 5,000 activists at a peaceful rally calling on G8 and G20 leaders to take stronger leadership on a variety of progressive issues. […]
-
Hoping for a shakeup at the G8/G20
I arrived in Toronto yesterday and, along with thousands of activists, media and government officials arriving for the upcoming G8 and G20 summits, was promplty greeted by an unusual earthquake centered a few hours away outside of Ottawa. Unfortunately, it seems that if the Canadian hosts have anything to do with it, that could be the only groundbreaking event I'll see this week when it comes to climate change.